When Di Qing arrived in the Chaohu area, he soon found out where Zheng Bao was entrenched.

inquired about Liu Ye's residence, and Di Qing came to visit. Liu Ye met with Di Qing and asked, "General Zhang's crusade against Yuan Shu, and the Huainan area has become famous, is there anything he sent you to do?" ”

Di Qing took out Zhang Yi's letter and said to Liu Ye: "Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, recommended Mr. to my father-in-law, so my father-in-law wants to invite Mr. to serve in Shouchun. ”

Liu Ye wrote the letter, and after reading it, he said: "I already understand what General Zhang means, but I can't get out here at all." I have a plan, and I need your cooperation. ”

"I don't know what the plan is?" Di Qing asked cautiously.

"I will declare that Your Excellency is an envoy sent by the Imperial Court, and then inform everyone with great fanfare. After Zheng Bao heard this, he would definitely come back to bribe Your Excellency. When the time comes, I will set up a banquet to entertain Zheng Bao, and Your Excellency will hide a dagger and assassinate Zheng Bao! ”

Di Qing thought for a moment and said, "Assassinating Zheng Bao is very simple, but I have a tattoo on my forehead, so I can't pretend to be a messenger. ”

Liu Ye chuckled: "This is simple, you only need to wear a scarf (the hat worn by Zhuge Liang in the TV series)." ”

Di Qing was a military general and had never brought such a thing. After Liu Ye's reminder, he suddenly realized, and immediately stroked his palm and said, "Just according to Mr.'s wishes." ”

Liu Ye took out the clothes he rarely wore and changed them into Di Qing, and then found a scarf, and after cleaning up, Di Qing also became a scribe.

Liu Ye found a dagger and said to Di Qing: "Your Excellency must kill Zheng Bao, if you can't kill him, we will all be in trouble." ”

Di Qing said confidently: "Sir, don't worry, I guarantee that I will be killed with one blow!" ”

Liu Ye went to prepare and began to hype about the arrival of the imperial court envoy to check the situation in Huainan.

And Di Qing also sent people out of the city to Hefei to contact Li Hongzhang, so that he could take advantage of the situation.

Speaking of Zheng Bao, he is from Yangzhou. It is a strong and courageous person. When Sun Ce and Liu Miao were fighting, Zheng Bao ran to Jiujiang County, gathered a team, and then coerced the local Haoqiang to join him.

In a short period of time, tens of thousands of people gathered, and many families in Jiujiang and Lujiang who suffered from Yuan Shu's attempt to harm the powerful family chose to defect to Zheng Bao.

In fact, Sun Ce had already broken away from Yuan Shu at this time, and it seemed that these big families should defect to Sun Ce. But otherwise, this group of family members felt that even if Sun Ce broke away from Yuan Shu, it was not a good thing. So these people would rather defect to Zheng Bao than to Sun Ce.

Zheng Bao's greatest wish is to return to Jiangdong. When he felt that his power was already very strong, he wanted to take these people who had taken refuge in him to migrate to Jiangdong.

But these people don't want to go to Koto, which is not their hometown. They will not leave their hometowns easily unless they have to do so. Moreover, Jiangdong is still a barbaric place now, and Baiyue frequently rebelled, which was not as good as Huainan at all.

Zheng Bao had no choice but to find a way to convince these people. At this juncture, a court envoy suddenly came to check, and Zheng Bao was shocked.

What he is doing now is actually no different from a rebellion. But he didn't want to rebel yet, so he could only appease the envoys of the court, not let them have trouble.

So Zheng Bao took hundreds of guests, brought wine and meat to Liu Ye's house, and met Di Qing: "I don't know that the messenger came from afar, and he hopes to atone for his sins." ”

Di Qing was so vain and wronged, Zheng Bao felt that this messenger was very easy to talk to, and he was overjoyed.

Liu Ye said at this time: "I have prepared a banquet, can the two of you come to the table to discuss?" ”

"It's nature!"

Both agreed, and Zheng Bao frequently toasted Di Qing during the banquet, not knowing that Di Qing wanted to kill him.

Zheng Bao's doormen were all drinking and eating in the courtyard in front of the hall, and no one looked into the lobby at all.

Liu Ye didn't pay attention to the inside when he saw the outside, and immediately gave Di Qing a look, and Di Qing nodded. Liu Ye picked up the wine jue and said to Zheng Bao: "These days, thanks to the envoy to take care of you, Ye respects the gentleman a cup." ”

Although Zheng Bao was not drunk, he was obviously unresponsive. Liu Ye and these people usually don't respect him much, but now they are so polite, it must be wrong. But Zheng Bao didn't realize it at all, and drank it with Liu Ye.

At this moment, Di Qing had already quietly touched his back, pulled out the dagger in his arms, and plunged it into Zheng Bao's throat at once.

Zheng Bao clutched his neck and fell to the ground, kicking his legs a few times before he died of exhaustion.

The sound of Zheng Bao falling to the ground alarmed the doormen outside, and just as they were about to rush into the lobby to check, they were stopped by more than a dozen soldiers with ring-headed knives.

Di Qing cut off Zheng Bao's head, walked to the front of the hall, and said loudly: "Zheng Bao conspired to rebel, and now he is ambushed, and if you surrender now, you can be punished lightly and avoid the death penalty!" ”

"Who are you?"

Di Qing removed the scarf and leaked the tattoo on his forehead, "I am Di Qing under the command of General Zhang Yi!" ”

"Ahh

Di Heitou?

Di Qing was also confused, when did he have such a nickname?

Liu Ye came over quietly and explained to Di Qing in a low voice.

It turned out that the news of Zhang Yi's recovery of Shouchun had already spread throughout Huainan, and Di Qing's killing of Ji Ling was also widely known. Because Di Qing has a tattoo on his forehead, he is called Di Heitou.

Di Heitou is Di Heitou! Di Qing couldn't care what others said. But this name is still quite useful, Ji Ling is one of the best generals under Yuan Shu, he fought to the death in the hands of Di Qing, how capable Di Qing is!

Deterred by rumors, Zheng Bao's disciples did not resist and surrendered obediently.

Di Qing immediately asked someone to send a letter to Li Hongzhang. Early the next morning, Li Hongzhang's warship sailed into Chaohu Lake and sailed into the port of Juchao.

Li Hongzhang brought more than 1,000 sailors this time, quickly occupied Juchao, and then with the cooperation of Di Qing, Zheng Bao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were surrendered.

Li Hongzhang selected 3,000 people and filled the army. Zheng Bao also has warships, although they are not as big as those brought by Li Hongzhang, but to drive these warships, people are also needed.

The remaining seven or eight thousand people were all reorganized by Di Qing, and even Zhang Yi was shocked by this matter, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers at once, and he was a little overwhelmed!

Although Li Hongzhang and Di Qing were summoned by him, he would not rest assured that there would be more soldiers under them than himself, this is a hidden danger!

So, Zhang Yi used the excuse of wanting to see Liu Ye and quickly arrived at the nest. After arriving in Juchao, Zhang Yi made some personnel adjustments, appointed Li Hongzhang as the head of Juchao, and appointed Di Qing as the Hefei Commander, took 3,000 men and horses to Hefei to serve, and gave him a military position to beg thieves.